Sex workers
International
Prostitutes Collective
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SAFETY
FIRST: Since 1975, the International Prostitutes Collective has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. No woman, child or man should be forced by poverty or violence into sex with anyone. We provide information, help and support to individual prostitute women and others who are concerned with sex workers’ human, civil, legal and economic rights. The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) and the US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) are part of the International Prostitutes Collective. We are in touch with sex workers all over the world. The situation of those of us in Third World countries and those of us who work the streets, often Black women, other women of colour and/or immigrant women, has always been our starting point. We are members of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. Since
8 March 2000 we have been participating in the
Global
Women’s Strike. Part of our work for the Strike 2003 was
to write, with others, an Open
letter to the Women’s Movement -
some
of those who claim to speak against violence against women picketed
a sex industry establishment
on International Women's Day,
when
most women, children and men are desperately trying to prevent the
war against Iraq.
Machismo
begins with the military, not with lap dancing.
Hector
Breeze Cartoon to
commemorate the Occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross, King's Cross,
London, 17-29 November 1982, by the English Collective of
Prostitutes. Thanks to Hector Breeze for donating his cartoon, which first
appeared in The Guardian, 27 November 1982.
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